Example sentences of "have been [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 32 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
| 33 | Lady Kilmarnock , Amis 's first wife , roared with laughter ( she and Lord K share digs with him — an unusual menage ) , while Paul Fussell , an old American friend of Amis , disclosed : ‘ Kingsley has been sent a clean set of underwear as a birthday present . |
| 34 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 35 | Airbus has been given a three-year guarantee on that contract . |
| 36 | No wonder the Secretary of State has been given a roving brief across Europe . |
| 37 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 38 | A brass band from Point of Ayr Colliery , which has been given a temporary reprieve from closure after being included in a 90-day pit review , headed the rally . |
| 39 | Norman Cole , a partner in Specsaver , which has branches in Stockton and Middlesbrough , has been given a temporary suspension for two years from the British College of Opticians . |
| 40 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 41 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 42 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 43 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
| 44 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 45 | POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells . |
| 46 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 47 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 48 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
| 49 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
| 50 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 51 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 52 | From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s . |
| 53 | THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate . |
| 54 | It is important from the landlord 's point of view to ensure that the centre does not expand where the tenant has been given a fixed service charge percentage , unless provisions are inserted in the lease to countenance this . |
| 55 | The five-year-old confined to a London hospital bed has been given a postal pick-me-up with get well cards from school pupils . |
| 56 | THE Irish golfer , Eamonn Darcy ( above ) , has been given a delicate commission — to design two new golf courses on the site of the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 57 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
| 58 | An unemployed man who caught pike out of season to feed his family has been given a conditional discharge by magistrates . |
| 59 | Jeremy Batty , an 18-year-old off-spinner , has been given a two-year contract by Yorkshire after his first-class debut in the last game of the season against Lancashire at Scarborough when he had match figures of 8 for 193 . |
| 60 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |